Community View: Students reach out to comfort grieving community

8:30 PM,
Jan. 1, 2013

In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, students at Brewster High School offered support to the Newtown, Conn., community. The student body has responded to greater community needs before. Efforts include a collection for Superstorm Sandy victims before the Nov. 3 football game between Brewster and Sleepy Hollow.

Written by

AnnMarie McLeod

Just weeks ago, it was a town like any other in the hills of New England, sleepy and slow and just waiting for Christmas. And now Newtown, Conn., belongs to the nation, to the world, without the option of choice or the consent of its inhabitants. Their celebrity is born of tragedy, not of achievement, and their grief is compounded by the cruelty of timing so near Christmas. But their resilience is birthed by the strength of thousands of acts of kindness, and there is a determination to honor the victims by becoming a stronger, better community full of individuals determined to make a positive ...